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Historical person
1423–1469
William Herbert was a Welsh soldier and Yorkist noble who became the first holder of the Herbert earldom of Pembroke. He helped Edward IV consolidate power in Wales, but was captured after the royal defeat at Edgecote in 1469 and executed on the orders of Warwick’s faction.
C. F. Dunn’s Wheel of Fortune is set in 1469, Isobel Fenton inherits Beaumoncote Manor and discovers that an unmarried heiress cannot control her land without attracting royal and noble intervention.
Series
The Tarnished Crown follows Isobel Fenton, later Isobel Langton, and Robert Langton through the political reversals of Edward IV’s reign. Beginning with Warwick’s rebellion in 1469, the series places their struggle for Beaumoncote Manor, marriage and family security inside the conflicts that divide the Yorkist court and repeatedly…
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